What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.

Steve Jobs emails himself

September 2, 2010

The Steve Jobs Archive is the authoritative home for Steve’s story and a resource to help new generations make their own mark.

The stolen masterpieces have never turned up—and nobody’s really looking for them

For machine gamblers, it’s not whether they win or lose — it’s how much they play the game.

A few months ago, I received a cryptic message from AirBnB that sounded like something straight out that Black Mirror episode with Jon…

Four books and a paper on the most powerful wonks in the world

We've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives

The first time I ever wrote publicly about a company's security vulnerabilities, my boss came to have a word with me after seeing my name in the news headlines.

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Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.

I blog mostly about my own programming projects.

A programming error accidentally — and permanently — shut down the entire Solana blockchain-based platform OptiFi, wiping out $661,000 worth of USDC.

And why big tech wants them

Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products.

Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop most…

This is a lightly edited trannoscript of my keynote over at NANOG 83, so please accept my apologies if some of the wording is not (yet) as clear as it should be! The original video, including Q&A can be found on NANOG’s Youtube channel
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1999 open Emacs bugs, that is: Made it past that magical 2K roadblock, so according to my education in financial analytics, there are no technical barriers until we reach 500.